The manufacturing decline reduces full-year, full-time employment rates for men. It also reduces real wages for men, especially less educated men. Details online. Just over 1.3 million, or 9 per cent, of Canadian households bought their first home within the previous five years according to new data from the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey. Nationally, just over half of first-time homebuyers (52.9 … Read more
The Farm Input Price Index was down 0.3 per cent in the third quarter. The decrease was due to lower prices for general business costs (-1.5 per cent) and machinery and motor vehicles (-1.1 per cent). Lower prices for machinery fuel (-7.5 per cent) accounted for most of the decline in input costs for machinery and motor … Read more
A new Statistics Canada study compares the employment rate and earnings between privately sponsored refugees and government-assisted refugees who were admitted to Canada from 1980 to 2009. This study found that privately sponsored refugees had much higher employment rates and earnings than government-assisted refugees in the initial years after arrival, but this difference diminished over time with government-assisted refugees … Read more
Employment increased by 35,000 (+0.2 per cent) in December, and the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 5.6 per cent. In the 12 months to December, employment increased by 320,000 (+1.7 per cent), the result of gains in full-time work (+283,000 or +1.9 per cent). Over the same period, the number of hours worked was little changed. Details online. Data from the Annual Electric Utility … Read more
The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities decreased 2.4 per cent to $8.1 billion in November. Declines were reported in six provinces, with the largest decrease in Ontario (-5.7 per cent to $3.2 billion). Quebec increased by 10.3 per cent to $1.9 billion which offset some of this decline. Details online. Tourism spending in Canada edged down 0.2 … Read more
In 2018, approximately one in four Canadians aged 15 and older (or 7.8 million people) provided care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, a physical or mental disability, or problems related to aging. While most caregivers (64 per cent) spent less than 10 hours a week on caregiving responsibilities, 15 per cent spent 10 to 19 hours, and 21 per cent spent 20 hours or more. Details online. … Read more
Canada’s merchandise exports declined 1.4 per cent in November to $48.7 billion, while imports were down 2.4 per cent to $49.8 billion. As a result, Canada’s merchandise trade deficit with the world narrowed from $1.6 billion in October to $1.1 billion in November. Details online. In November, Canada’s monthly deficit in international trade in services widened by $108 million to $1.5 billion. The expanding deficit … Read more
Prices for products manufactured in Canada, as measured by the Industrial Product Price Index, edged up 0.1 per cent in November. Prices for raw materials purchased by manufacturers operating in Canada, as measured by the Raw Materials Price Index, were up 1.5 per cent, primarily because of higher prices for crude energy products. Details online. Statistics Canada released … Read more
Statistics Canada released figures on sawmills, October 2019. Lumber production increased 11.5 per cent from September to 5 203.5 thousand cubic metres in October. Production was 9.6 per cent lower than in October 2018. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada made available data on Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit, October 2019. Total operating revenues … Read more
Retail sales decreased 1.2 per cent to $50.9 billion in October. The decline was primarily attributable to lower sales at motor vehicle and parts dealers and at building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers. Lower sales were reported in 8 of 11 subsectors, representing 81 per cent of retail trade. After removing the effects of price changes, retail sales in volume terms … Read more
